Sentence examples for unconfident from inspiring English sources

The first is about an unconfident urban boy, newly displaced to rural Suffolk, who makes strangely magical links across the generations.

Yet firms seem oddly unconfident, choosing to hold a high proportion of assets in an essentially unproductive form rather than investing more assertively in future expansion.Their bosses have been doing the sorts of things that cash-rich firms do: pampering their own shareholders and trying to win over others.

In his last feature, Greenberg (2010), Baumbach seemed simply to back the wrong horse, training the spotlight on Ben Stiller's self-pitying depressive when it ought to have been on Greta Gerwig's adorable but unconfident single girl.

You drag yourself through life in the shadow of an unconfident girl.

The subjects may sound harsh, but the painting of them is neither violent nor graceful, simply unassertive and unconfident, caution suggesting uncertainty.

Georgie grew up painfully thin, painfully shy, and painfully unconfident of his abilities.

She could be said to resemble the character Janie Blumberg, the budding writer in her 1981 play "Isn't It Romantic": "Her appearance is a little kooky, a little sweet, a little unconfident — all of which some might call creative, or even witty".

Houellebecq's men are unattractive, unsociable, frigid, sexually unconfident, physically underequipped, erotically bored (or some combination of these negatives); they are panhandlers in the sexual souk, and spend much of their time trying to grab what wares they can, by way of porn, prostitutes, or swingers' clubs.

Now and again, Mr. Shawn said things that were most encouraging to a fretful, not to say neurotic, unconfident writer.

Considering McFaul's sometimes shaky grasp of the Russian idiom, this could make him look both volatile and unconfident.

She could be said to resemble the character Janie Blumberg, the budding writer in her 1981 play "Isn't It Romantic": "Her appearance is a little kooky, a little sweet, a little unconfident all of which some might call creative, or even witty".